Puzzle display device



a 1931- a w SHGCKLEY 1,789,782

PUZZLE DISPLAY DEVICE' Filed May 21-, 1950 'm "24 J -j pr L 1 INVENTOR Patented Jan. 20, 1931 l UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BERNARD W. SHOCKLEY, F BRIDGEWATER, MASSACHUSETTS PUZZLE DISPLAY DEVICE Application filed May 21, 1930. Serial No. 454,377.

This invention relates to a puzzle of the board or any other material found suitable jig-saw type and more particularly to a novel for the purpose and which is preferably of means for presenting the puzzle to the tray so the oblong rectangular form shown most that. before the puzzle is actually worked, clearly in Figure 1 of the drawing. Within 6 the picture which is represented thereby may the body 1 there is arranged, in inverted be viewed and the one purchasing or receivposition, a tray 2 which is preferably of the ing the puzzle may therefore gain a general same material as the body 1 and this tray is idea of the result to be obtained by a proper preferably formed from a rectangular blank assemblage of the component units or pieces and incisions are made in the corners there- 10 of the puzzle, and in this connection the inof, and the material turned down to provide vcntion has as its object to provide a puzzle the side and end walls of the tray, and it which may be conveniently handled and will be observed by reference to Figure 2 which may be given to patients in hospitals, that the tray is of less depth than the body 1 and in sanitarimns. for the patients amuseof the box and is disposed within the box in 15 ment and as a pass-time novelty. inverted position. The tray bottom is there- T his invention also consists in certain other fore. presented upwardly and arranged upon features of construction and in the combinathe same are the component pieces 3 of a tion and arrangement of the several parts. picture which is produced by the proper asto he hereinafter fully described, illustrated Scmblagc of these pieces.

in the accompanying drawing, and specifi- The pieces 3 are formed from card-board cally pointed out in the appended claim, it or thin wood and each piece will of course being understood of course that minor bear upon its face which is uppermost when changes may be made so long as they fall the pieces are arranged upon the bottom of within the scope of the claim. the tray 2, a portion of the composite picture.

25 In describing my invention in detail, ref- The cover member of the box is indicated erence willhe had to the accompanying drawby the numeral 4 and is in the nature of a ing, wherein like characters denote like or rectangular frame of paste-board or other corresponding parts throughout the several material suitable for the purpose and proviews. and in which vided with side and end flanges 5, which 30 Figure 1 is a plan view of the puzzle emflanges constitute the side and end walls of bodying the invention. the said cover, and the cover is so propor- Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view tioned as to adapt it to be fitted down over taken substantially on the line 2-2 of Figthe body 1 in the manner clearly shown in ure 1. Figure 2. In order that the picture may be 35 Figure 3 is a perspective view of a part of viewed, when the pieces 3 are properly asthe container for the puzzle. sembled to form the complete picture, a sheet The invention contemplates, generally 6 of isinglass or transparent paper or other speaking. in the provision of a puzzle of the material of a transparent character is disjig-saw type in which a number of pieces, posed over the assemblage of pieces and con- 0 of various marginal contours are to be asfined at its margins by the marginal portions sembled in marginal registration so as to of the cover 4 which surround the opening in form a true rectangular picture, portions of the cover. which picture are represented upon the faces In practice, the component pieces of the of different ones of the said pieces and, the picture are properly assembled so as to form initial arrangement of these pieces in assemthe composite or complete picture by propbled relation within a container in the naerly arranging the pieces within the body of tu re of a shallow tray provided with a transthe box upon the bottom of the tray 2, and the parent lid. cover is then applied to the said body, the

In the drawing the numeral 1 indicates the transparent sheet 6 having been first ar- 50 body of a shallow box which may be of cardranged over the assemblage of pieces. The

device is then in condition to be placed upon the market and the one receiving the device will, after careful consideration of the picture gain a general impression as to the 5 nature thereof, remove the pieces andlikewise the tray 2 and then turn the tray right side up and, at this time, proceed with his or her efforts to so arrange the pieces as to form the composite picture, in the tray.

It will be understood of course that some of the pieces or blocks 3 will have right line sides as well as irregular sides, and that these blocks or pieces are the ones which are to constitute the marginal pieces of the completed picture and their straight or right line edges or sides will then abut against the inner sides of the walls of the tray.

What I claim is 2-- A puzzle of the class described comprising a box, a cover for the box comprising a frame to fit over the upper side of the box, and a transparent sheet within the frame, a tray disposed in inverted position in the box, and a plurality of picture blocks of various a marginal contours adapted, when properly assembled, to form a complete picture of a marginal contour to fit within and fill the tray,.the blocks being initially properly assembled upon the bottom of the tray, and the a tray, after removal of the blocks, constituting means within which the blocks may be reassembled.

In testimonfighereof I afiix my si ature.

BE ABD W. SH Y. 

